Whether you’re an Internet celebrity or not, it’s always nice to get “likes” on any post, but obsessing over that number, or even comparing it to others, seems to be bad for your physical and mental health.
“Hiding the number of likes” is a seemingly small change, but in fact it has a huge impact on the entire Instagram ecosystem, because it will reduce the “herd mentality” of users and make the “likes” and “likes” of a post meaningless.
For those who care about the amount of love they have in order to gain acceptance, or who like to compare the number of likes on their posts to those of others, hidden likes can be an even bigger shock.
Instagram tested the hidden likes update with a note that pointedly states that it wants SBF users to focus on “what’s being shared,” not “how many likes this post gets.” In other words, Instagram believes that love itself should not be seen as a statistic that “competes with each other.”
Don’t like flash dynamic “culminated, sets the number of” hidden “in functional testing, itself still can see posts, posts to the total number of love itself, but others posts to the total number of praise is not privy to, how many also reduces the comparison between consumer psychology, also can maintain platform, not only the” content “by most of people like.
In an interview with foreign media, Instagram pointed out that the hidden Likes feature is only being tested internally and there are no plans to release it to general users, but they are looking for a solution to reduce the stress Instagram users experience while exploring the platform.
Last month Twitter began testing a new design that also hides the number of retweets a user has made, in the hope of curbing wasteful competition and conformity. Snapchat has never had a similar number, or even a follower count.
In addition to a possible update to hidden likes, Instagram has also confirmed that it is currently testing several new features, including sending stickers directly in Direct and allowing lyrics to a soundtrack to be displayed synchronously on a timed feed.
It’s worth noting that Instagram doesn’t seem to have any plans to “hide follower numbers,” which is a measure of how popular a user really is. But given that the number helps distinguish the best content creators and has advertising value, it probably won’t change any time soon.
Finally, even if the number of love messages posted by users is hidden, it still affects the ranking of The Times algorithm behind the scenes, so the real creators still need to win the likes in order to reach more people.